Posting objectionable content equals stalking: HC
MUMBAI, Dec. 6 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that posting objectionable content on a woman's social media account amounts to stalking and outraging her modesty, which are both serious offences.
The court was hearing a plea filed by a man seeking to have a police case against him quashed. According to the FIR, the man and the woman became friends on Facebook in 2017. The man eventually made romantic advances, which the woman rejected. The man then allegedly began posting objectionable material about her on her Facebook account.
The woman also alleged that a day before her wedding in December 2019, the man went to her house with a bottle of poison and threatened to kill himself. Her family took him to the police station, where he apologised, so no action was taken against him. However, the man allegedly continued stalking her online and posting defamatory content on her Facebook account.
On the other hand, the man claimed that he and the woman had been in a relationship since 2014-15, and their marriage was also finalised. However, the woman and her family later allegedly demanded Rs.5 lakh and five acres of land. When he told them he was not in a position to fulfil their demands and asked them to return the money he had earlier lent them, they allegedly abused and threatened him.
The man told the high court that the allegations levelled against him were false and did not amount to harassment. However, after a division bench of justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nandesh S Deshpande noted that having a prior relationship with someone cannot be "construed as giving a licence to the applicant to post some objectionable post over the social site"....
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